The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-01-20
GREENSBORO BUDGET.
THE CREAM OF THE WEEKS NEWS
FROM THE CITY OF FLOWERS.
The Usual Breezy Letter from our Green's
boro Correspondent-Summ of the
Town Gossip for a Week.

The Usual Breezy Letter from our Green's
boro CONGRATULATIONS of the
Town Gossip for Week.
GREENSBORO, Jan. 1S.-Our merchants
say that business is dull. The impression
has gotten out that money matters are tight
and will be more so. There is truth in the
idea, but in this, like all other hard and
disagreeable things, the matter is made
much worse by talking so much about it. 1t
is fact, old as the history of the world,
that the race is not-never has been-more
than a few months from starvation, and yet
how little the idea is thought of, or COM
mented upon. The whole world is face to
face with the appalling fact, that the failure
of one years supply would be universal fam
inc. They have no idea that such is posi-
BILE after an experience of 5000 years, and
yet they talk very fippantly about "hard
times" Luxuries are just as common, and
more SO, than ever before. Guilford county
farmers daughters wear kid gloves and kid
shoes and silks and satin robes and stylish
hats and jewelry of gold-plenty of it-and
keep it up from year to year and actually
increase the amount of consumption. And
society seems to stand the strain. As yet
there is no retrenchment, and yet, the times
are very, rery hard. Selah!
THE BANG!
Not the one let off by the small boy last
Xmas, or the bigger one by the dynameter
that shakes the earth and causes European
monarchy to totter but the frizzly little cur
ly bang that has been wiggling out its friv-
olious existence on the intellectual (?) brow
of the young girl of the period for the last
ington reach that made our Revolutionary
danes look SO grand, revealing eounte-
nance that the owner was not ashland Ct
and which shed inspiration over the be-
holder, has just turned the corner in the
long lane of fashion and is just looming up
in sight. Yes sir, the roach is usurping the
long silly reign of the bang!
NUGGETS.
Tobacco factory employees out of work,
hanging around street corners are glad of a
small job.
Some of the Guilford constituency are
CldumOTIuS AOW-dS luCf nave lOu& Uccu
doing-for dog law.
Greensboro has seven stores, largely or en-
| tirely hardware. This looks like we are
both domestic and agricultural people.
Fire alarms have taken recess. All
quiet since the arrival of the Gen. Green
| fire engine The boys have not had
chance to show how nimble they can be.
The newspaper man is raising the annual
| howl about paved streets, tor the annual
season of mud-wet dust is also here. It is
both ubiquitous and soft. These are moist
fact.
The very best yellow leaf of the season is
now on the market and brings fair prices
but alas most of the proceeds must go for
that imaginary luxury, guano. Now let
cIouer have showing.
The drummer-the festive drummer is
abroad. He is frequent. He is numerous
and importunate. He goes in all directions
He is here and there he isn't Folds hi.
tent Sample case) and silently steals (old
Arab Chestnut you know away.
The Morning News, started a short time
ago, collapsed in less than two weeks. The
two editors, viewing the situation from two
different standpoints, could not see alike
result, dissolution. They had plucky lit
tie paper and its demise is sincerely regret
ted.
The Charlotte Observer says, Mr.. Bur
bank, of the electric light com pany, has gon'
to Greensboro on business connected will
the establishment of an electric light plan
in that progressive little city. From wha
we can learn the day is not far distant wher
the Inhabitants of that town will be enabled
to judge for themselves as to the merits o
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